Pope Francis and members of the Vatican Curia travelled on Sunday afternoon to the "Casa del Divin Maestro,” a retreat centre in Ariccia, located in the Alban hills just outside Rome. They are taking part in the week-long Curial Spiritual Exercises.

Pope Francis invited the Roman Curia to embrace the process of reform on Thursday, telling them Christmas is “the feast of the loving humility of God, of the God who upsets our logical expectations, the established order”

Pope Francis wants to see the laity more and more involved in the Church’s mission to evangelize. The Pope made that affirmation in an address to participants of the last Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Laity ahead of reforms

Pope Francis at the General Audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. The Holy Father has been meeting this week with the Council of Cardinals.

The compassion of the Good Samaritan: caring witness towards those who suffer should be a characteristic of the true Christian. That's the message at the heart of Fr. Ermes Ronchi’s Lenten meditation for Pope Francis and the Roman Curia on the fifth day of their spiritual exercises outside Rome